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4.
Urges all Governments to contribute further to the implementation of the
Plan of Action, in particular by:
(a) Encouraging the establishment, in accordance with national conditions,
of broadly representative national committees for human rights education
responsible for the development of comprehensive, effective and sustainable
national plans of action for human rights education and information, taking into
consideration the recommendations of the mid-term global evaluation of the Decade
and the guidelines for national plans of action for human rights education developed
by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 11
(b) Encouraging, supporting and involving national and local
non-governmental and community-based organizations in the implementation of
their national plans of action;
(c) Initiating and developing cultural and educational programmes aimed at
countering racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and
supporting and implementing public information campaigns and specific training
programmes in the field of human rights, as emphasized at the World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance;2
5.
Encourages Governments to consider, within their national plans of
action for human rights education:
(a) The establishment of public access human rights resource and training
centres to carry out research, including on child and gender-sensitive training of
trainers;
(b) The preparation, collection, translation and dissemination of human
rights education and training materials;
(c) The organization of courses, conferences, workshops and public
information campaigns and assistance in the implementation of internationally
sponsored technical cooperation projects for human rights education and public
information;
6.
Encourages States, where such national public access human rights
resource and training centres exist, to strengthen their capacity to support human
rights education and public information programmes at the international, regional,
national and local levels;
7.
Calls upon Governments, in accordance with national conditions, to
accord priority to the dissemination, in the relevant national local and indigenous
languages, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenants on Human Rights 12 and other human rights instruments, human rights
materials and training manuals, including information on human rights mechanisms
and complaint procedures and reports of States parties submitted under international
human rights treaties, and to provide information and education in those languages
on the practical ways in which national and international institutions and procedures
may be utilized to ensure the effective implementation of those instruments;
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Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.